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An innocent girl falls in with a crowd devoted to pot and free love.

Innocent teenager Ann Dixon becomes friendly with the more worldy Eve Monroe, whose mother indulges in alcohol and extra-marital affairs, and is wooed by her schoolmate Tommy. After Eve introduces Ann to the pleasures of alcohol and steamy romance novels, Tommy invites her for a drive and kisses her in a secluded wooded area. Later, while picnicking at a lake resort, Tommy teaches Ann how to smoke and, once alone with her, seduces her with declarations of love. Although Ann cries over her loss of virginity, she continues to see Tommy and, with Eve and her boyfriend Ed, goes drinking at a lodge. There Ann meets Ralph Bennett, a seasoned womanizer, who draws her away from the drunken Tommy. In spite of Tommy's warnings about the playboy, Ann begins to date Ralph and spends a long evening alone with him. The next day, Ann, whose parents are oblivious to her activities, joins Ralph, Eve and Ed at a friend's party, the climax of which is a strip crap game and a semi-nude dip in the host's swimming pool. Alerted by angry neighbors, the police raid the party and take Ann and Eve to the station's juvenile division. After a medical examination, Eve learns that she has contracted veneral disease and is held for treatment. Soon after Ann discovers that she is pregnant and, at Ralph's insistence, has an illegal abortion. Ralph then enlists Ann to "entertain" a client of his company, and the shock of his casual betrayal causes Ann to succumb to the effects of the crudely executed abortion. As her remorseful, grief-stricken parents watch, Ann asks for forgiveness and dies.